But for this sport, many people didn't understand it at that time. They just took part in the movement with their own enthusiasm and listened to Chairman Mao's call. But many years later, when people look back, they finally understand what Chairman Mao thought. After understanding this, they can't help but be impressed by Chairman Mao's vision.
With the successive victories of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, the turbulent period that lasted for decades in China finally came to an end. Under the leadership of Chairman Mao, the people of the whole country live a peaceful and happy life. In peacetime, the population of our country keeps growing. A few years after the founding of New China, the number of young people in China has reached a new peak, and the whole of China has seen a thriving scene. But behind this scene, Chairman Mao keenly discovered some problems.
At that time, although our country was moving forward step by step and stepping on the road of industrialization, we still didn't have enough jobs to accommodate these young people in cities, which led to many young people with knowledge and education doing nothing in cities at that time. But in rural areas, this situation is just the opposite. China is a big agricultural country. At that time, although we were trying to transform into an industrial country, agriculture was still our pillar industry.
Chairman Mao attached great importance to farmers' problems, but in the early days of the founding of New China, there were very serious problems in the vast rural areas, that is, there were not many land and production tools in farmers' homes, and the production tools used by most people were very old and backward. Under such circumstances, in the event of natural disasters, farmers had almost no means of resistance at that time. In order to change this situation, Chairman Mao made a decision in 19565438+.
Today, Lao Li's family is short of a plow, so he borrowed it from Lao Wang's family. If Lao Wang's family needs a hoe tomorrow, go to Lao Zhang's house to get it. If something goes wrong in their field, everyone will try to form a group to help each other. This proposal put forward by Chairman Mao soon spread in the vast rural areas. After summing up the experience of each pilot, we started to develop agricultural production cooperatives in 1953, but
At that time, almost several generations in the countryside were farmers, and few people were qualified for this kind of work, such as literacy and arithmetic. When there is no accounting, many cooperatives rely on farmers to keep their own records. Although this kind of rough statistics is very prone to problems and often brings trouble to work, it was already the best solution at that time.
Shortly after the proposal of rural cooperatives was put forward, Chairman Mao was keenly aware of this problem. At that time, that is, from that time on, Chairman Mao put forward the prototype of going to the countryside. At that time, Chairman Mao mentioned in a report that the main direction and working method of primary and secondary school graduates was to come to the countryside. It was also at this time that Chairman Mao put forward the slogan of vast world and great achievements.
At that time, after Chairman Mao put forward this proposal, he quickly got everyone's response. After all, although the number of factory jobs in the city was increasing at that time, it could not keep up with the growth rate of population at that time. More importantly, under the leadership of Chairman Mao, everyone wants to contribute to the development of the motherland.
Almost during this period, our big brother in the Soviet Union launched a large-scale reclamation campaign at 1954. Different from the previous reclamation movement, which only mobilized farmers, the Soviet Union transferred more than 270,000 young and middle-aged laborers from cities during the period from 1954 to 1956, which directly alleviated the dual problems of rural labor shortage and food shortage in the Soviet Union at that time.
Influenced by the Soviet Union, 1955, China's first team went to the countryside. These are five young people in the suburbs of Beijing at that time. They want to make more contributions to the motherland, so after being approved, they organized a team of 60 people to open up wasteland in Chenda Island, Wenzhou.
1956, our country formally put forward the slogan of educated youth going to the countryside and wrote it into our documents, which was the official start of the movement. However, although the educated youth began to go to the countryside one after another at this time, the large-scale movement didn't really start until around 1968, because a great event happened during this period.
Around 1956, the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union became closer and closer, mainly because of the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the Soviet Union began to regard us as strategic partners. At this time, the Soviet Union began to carry out large-scale aid construction for us, and the famous 156 plan was at this time. At that time, the Soviet Union increased our aid construction plan on a large scale. This plan made our road to industrialization advance from the very beginning of running, so during that time, young people in the city gradually entered more and more factories to exercise and study.
Regrettably, because the Soviet Union's ambition was discovered by Chairman Mao, Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated sharply around 60 years ago. At this time, three years of natural disasters occurred, and agricultural products such as grain were greatly reduced throughout the country, and urban food supply was in short supply. The Soviet Union also took this opportunity to send millions of troops to our border and demanded that we pay off all our foreign debts.
To make matters worse, it has been more than ten years since the founding of New China. During these ten years, we have no restrictions on population planning. Under the backward thought of many children and many blessings, a large number of newborns were born after the founding of New China, and by about 1960, China's population almost began to explode. According to statistics, in 1949, China's population was about 500 million, and it has only been 1 1 year. By 60 years, our country has a population of 660 million.
With the increase of population, the dismantling of Soviet aid projects, frequent natural disasters, and the need to repay the Soviet foreign debt, going to the countryside has become the most important solution, that is, during this period, the work of going to the countryside began to be organized and planned slowly, but the problem was far more serious than we thought.
1955- 1967, under the leadership of chairman Mao, the plan of educated youth going to the countryside was carried out in an orderly way. Even in the middle, there are many people with lofty ideals who actively support the vast rural areas. Many of these intellectuals have experienced those difficult years and know the importance of struggle, but with the development of time. Chairman Mao discovered a serious problem.
After the founding of New China, China's national strength has been continuously enhanced. With the advent of the era of peace and the increasing affluence of life, many young people are somewhat flattered. Some young people have even seen the shadow of hedonism. They are addicted to the rich life in the city, and gradually forget the hard struggle, and some even forget the revolution. They even have a contempt for their rural compatriots.
In the vast rural areas, in order to support the development of cities, farmers are under increasing pressure, but without the promotion of intellectuals, the development of rural areas can not be fast. At that time, many people thought that this situation was normal and the only way for our development, but Chairman Mao keenly discovered the problem.
If this development continues, the young people in the future will probably deny the achievements of the revolutionary ancestors, be content with the status quo, lose the spirit of adventure and innovation, and lose the courage to struggle and forge ahead. However, if we young people lose these precious qualities and only focus on our own comfort, it will be a disaster for a stable life.
Therefore, in Chairman Mao's view, these young intellectuals must exercise. Just like those soldiers, the soldiers who lived in the war years suffered some hardships and suffered some torture, but the tempering given to them in the war years was not available in peacetime. Chairman Mao hoped that a new generation of young people could undertake the development of the whole country and lead the country to a stronger direction, so in 1968, China launched a large-scale rural movement.
This rural movement is different from previous organized and planned rural movements. The scale of this movement is unprecedented. It is precisely because of this that many urban intellectuals finally realize what books can't learn. When these young people were in the city, they thought that the whole world was so colorful and they knew everything about it. But when I got to the countryside, I found that everything was different from myself. There are not only colorful cities, but also boundless land in this world. Not all roads in the world are busy and dusty. There are not only comfortable rooms in this world, but also farmland with its back to loess and scorching sun. There are too many things they have never seen in this world, and they will also find that this world is not as perfect as they think.
In the process of going to the countryside, many educated youths have encountered things that they have never encountered in the first 20 years of their lives. Their four bodies are not diligent, regardless of grain, which makes their lives encounter unprecedented difficulties. Without experience in agricultural production, they can hardly complete agricultural production, and their rations are almost entirely supported by local people. In the city, they once looked down on those farmers, but here, they also tasted discrimination. The blow they suffered was a nightmare.
Some educated youths are almost held in the palm of their hands when they are in the city, but they can't support themselves when they face heavy physical labor. The hand that used to hold books and pens now holds hoes and sickles. They used to work in the countryside under the scorching sun, and countless educated youths complained about such a life, but what they didn't know was that they had achieved unprecedented growth in such an environment.
Once naive, in the process of communication with people began to mature. They no longer apply things literally in real life. They began to learn to analyze and think. Their ability to solve problems is constantly improving, just like an old saying goes, read thousands of books and take Wan Li Road.
In this life, they have a deeper understanding of their previous knowledge and learned to be self-reliant. More importantly, after undergoing such training, they realized how precious their previous life was. Between studying and farming, an educated youth chose to study. After returning to the city, they became more and more diligent. Almost half of the overseas students in the 1980s were educated youth. After this experience, the creativity of many literary writers has been greatly improved. He no longer just describes those illusory things, and their creative thinking has also been greatly improved. As an educated youth once said, going to the countryside made them truly realize the hardships of lettering in the wrinkles of farmers. This road has turned him from a proud student into a person who can really share the same fate with the people.
For the rural areas at that time, the arrival of educated youth greatly promoted the development at that time. Educated youth has brought great vitality to the countryside, and the knowledge they brought and what they saw and heard greatly accelerated the development of the countryside. Many senior intellectuals have transformed the countryside with their own knowledge and greatly improved the level of rural productivity.
The promotion of going to the countryside to the countryside is not limited to productivity, because the rural areas have seen the outside world and learned the power of knowledge, and our rural areas have begun to attach importance to education, which has a significant role in promoting the development of rural education.
It is worth mentioning that at that time, the medical level in rural areas was greatly improved because of educated youth going to the countryside, and the movement of barefoot doctors going to the countryside was also launched in an all-round way, which not only greatly improved the medical level in rural areas at that time, but also provided a solid foundation for the cooperative medical system in our vast rural areas later.
In addition, what I saw and heard in the countryside also made many educated youths really see the vast world in the countryside, which laid the foundation for the construction of many township enterprises later. As Chairman Mao said at that time, come from the masses and go to the masses. The movement of going to the countryside made educated youth understand this truth in practice. They have a profound understanding of what the masses are, what is unity with the masses and what is seeking truth from facts. The movement of going to the countryside has enabled a new generation of young people who have never experienced setbacks to understand what is practical and realistic in the truest and simplest way. Understand the importance of courage and hard work. Some people may get hurt during this period, but it may be an indispensable link for China as a whole.